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Yin and Yang

Yin and Yang.... kitten style

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/11/kitteh-a-copia.html

Ginormous

I'm not every sure ginormous is a word. My fiance insists that it is.

I just saw Anthony Bourdain use it on television...

TV doesn't lie. It must be a word

Alas....

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figures i would do it wrong...

But hopefully fixed too.

Dripping faucet

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Pretty industrious, if i say so myself

fridge pic

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amazon recommendation

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weird

Weirdest news stories in the last few days.

1. Dumbledore is gay
2. Exploring the "Dark side" of Peanuts Creator

weird

Hat Steamer?

never know when you need a hat steamer...

http://www.goodmans.net/item.asp?n=JF-J1&k=JF-J1&sc=NXTG

Cables woes

So I signed up for "free digital cable" whatever that means... i can get some shows whenever I want them rather than waiting for when they're really on.... anyway - got 3 cable boxes in the mail... none of the 3 work. Called the company... impressed they were able to send someone the next day. He's here today and my friend is at my house to meet him. Apparently he couldn't get them to work and so he called into the company and then he gets put on hold. "Ha" if one of the employees can't get thru to the cable company... who can?

Cruel world

I was in Lansing, MI for the lighting of the tree at the state capital and a parade with lighted floats etc. I do occasionally listen to one of the morning shows out of lansing. For a while it was The morning show with Dave and Lisa, and then Lisa went on vacation and then just seemed to disappear. Anyway, the radio station had a Honda Element at the parade with some of the DJs riding on the roof. Both my friend Stacia and I commented that on the Side of the car was "Dave and L". It looked to us that they had started taking off Lisa's name and then stopped for some reason. Anyway I didn't think too much about it. This morning all of a sudden a new girl was part of the morning show. Guess what her name was. Lori or Laurie (can't hear the spelling over the radio obviously) So what I thought was a half-ass name removal job on the part of the radio station was infact a planned replacement of the Word Lisa with Lori... on the cheap even too without having to redo the whole thing. only 3 new letters needed. Cruel.

Lego Eggos

I saw the coolest thing ever at Kroger the other day

LEGO WAFFLES!!!

The slogan was "Toast, break, and build."

Here's a post about them at the Strange New Products Blog.

Comments there say they don't build that well, but the idea is cool.

Halloween

It's been a while since I've blogged... had lots of kids come by last night for halloween. Tons of kids in the neighborhood. Anyway one of my buddies brought by some little comic books (graphic novels?) to hand out to the kids too... probably to subvert them to his comic reading lifestyle. Anyway. they were were fairly well received... maybe because they were getting candy anyway. Funny though, two small children immediately handed the book to their moms. One guy said "Oh cool, my dad would love this" Sigh.

Clubbing

It was V's birthday Friday. We went out dancing... dancing makes me feel old, but it's so much fun. The was one guy there in a plain white t shirt, black shorts with white socks and black shoes dancing by himself. at least i wasn't the dorkiest one there.

movie night

I've discovered a set of channels on my new tv. My guess is that they are OnDemand channels for the digial cable system (I don't have digital cable) So I watched the second half of Napolean Dynamite and then I'm guessing 80% of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Both pretty dumb, but also very amusing. It was a good movie night.

squirrels

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I'm, watching a tv show on squirrels. fascinating creatures.

cat hair II

(Delayed post)
Went out Aug 6th evening again. Been a while since i've been to the bars two nights in a row. much nicer night. no babysitting.... a good time was had by all. got my friend's g-friend drunk (she's also my friend) because it was her b-day. had egg sandwiches at 3am thanks to my friend. he's a good man. (don't tell him i said that)

cat hair on my tongue

Went out last night. I must have done something wrong, god is punishing me. Had a perfectly reasonable going away dinner. Went to a reasonable going away shindig (a different goings-away, what can i say people don't like to be around me)It was sweltering there I thought I was going to melt. We brought some of the people from the dinner to the other shindig. Now see this is where the problems start. I've always been a fan of mixing worlds. Ya know you have different groups of friends when you are in different situations. i.e. work friends and friends from college. problems occur when you try to do activities with multiple groups of people at the same time... i've said in the past (not to you, but to myself really) that it's okay to mix... people get to know each other better and then you have less scheduling difficulty. i may have to take it back. after the melty outdoor bar (which closes with airraid sirens at an unreasonably early hour) we went to nice different bar. more chill, more airconditioned... now here some people from work that I know peripherally showed up. little older crowd, nice people, but not people you'd expect to see out a bar (now up to 3 worlds mixing). another one shows up at the same bar with some really young, very pregnant looking semihottie which is just weird. so now i'm tripping a bit. all of a sudden one of the people who is leaving wants to go dancing. It takes half an hour to get everyone on board with minor drama in the making(One guy is trying to mess with a girl he'll never score with so she'll like him better --very 3rd grade, another needs to swing by another bar so he can meet up with his sorta/kinda woman... not quite girlfriend according to him, but don't know what'd she'd say) Anyway we all finally make it to the other club, the older people don't like the vibe so they take off immediately to go somewhere else. i stick around, more 3rd grade games ensue (see above) she takes off (probably not a direct result of said games). now we chill for a bit. and the crew thins a bit (booty calls, arguments, etc) so we make another venue change. Ends up we go the club that the other group had left ours to go to. so we kinda sorta recombine, but not really because it's a little weird. Bars close. we go home. Much more specific drama to record, but I don't want implicate anyone. Maybe the mixing of worlds wasn't the problem, but it sure seemed that way. Two other possibilities, i'm officially too old to go out to bars/clubs (which i hope is not true) or it was just too many venues. we'll never know. Anyway I had too much to drink regardless, it tastes like cat hair on my tongue

ps. if you care at all, just found a monster hairball that the car yarfed up in my clean laundry. Unrelated to the cat hair taste on my tongue I assure you.

yippee

New LCD projection TV. Yippee. 3 channels tune in HDTV. I'm tempted to order digital cable right now. Til then there will be a lot of PBS-HD.

casino night

Yesterday went to deal blackjack for a charity casino night. Discovered a term I'd never heard before.

"Church Blackjack"

For this event according to state rules or whatever there are different blackjack rules than usual so that the charity has an advantage and doesn't lose money. In this case this means that the house wins ties. Sucks if you're playing, but it's all for charity.